The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After walking through a forest path opened by the trees, they entered the open grassland. There are some herbivores walking back and forth on the grassland. Castle Black, which looked very strange from the outside, and the dark cloud that kept thundering and raining over the castle.

"Here?" Leo stopped after walking out of the woods. He stood there and looked around, then turned to look at the forest behind him, with a slightly surprised expression on his face.

Although he thought that as an ancient organization composed of powerful superhumans, the Witches' Gathering House would definitely be a very special place, but what he didn't expect was that the Witches' Gathering House would use a fragment of a subspace plane as their meeting place. So, and it seems that the energy of this debris space is still very stable, even like a real small world.

After entering this world, Leo felt that the spiritual energy on his body had changed, becoming more sensitive and stronger, while the power of the Weaver and other gods belonging to the world of Velen was weakened a lot, only Outer God and Abyss There is no change in strength.

"Take my hand." Sylvia said to Leo at this time.

Leo froze for a moment, followed Sylvia's order and held Sylvia's hand, and then saw Sylvia take a random step forward, and the group of people came to Castle Black from the edge of the small grassland several kilometers away in an instant doorway.

After adapting to the sudden change of the scene, Leo looked at the grassland behind him, and felt a little vigilant and scruples about this seemingly peaceful small grassland.

In the process of traveling through space similar to that just now, Leo felt the changes in the surrounding energy fluctuations at that moment, and recorded them, but just now he sorted out these recorded information data almost instantly, and found that the small piece of The grassland is actually a trap, an endless loop of traps.

People who enter this trap will enter an infinite loop of maze, unless they find a door or passage to leave, they may be trapped in that maze.

Moreover, Leo's information about this space maze trap did not come from the world of Velen, but from the Earth Federation, because this kind of space maze trap is a psionic skill that advanced psykers must master.

Although the power of this space maze trap is not psionic power, the whole trap feels very similar to the space maze trap he encountered back then.

This made him couldn't help asking Sylvia: "Who didn't set up this trap outside?"

"You can see that there is a trap here?" Sylvia said nothing, but Seran, who was bathing in the fire, looked at Leo in amazement, as if he was watching something unbelievable.

"Is it difficult to find this trap outside?" Leo asked back.

Seran didn't answer Leo, because suddenly there was a dignified lady with dignified clothes beside them, she looked at Leo curiously, and said: "Actually, you are the first This space maze trap was discovered without triggering the trap."

Although the life level of this lady is not higher than that of Leo, Leo feels that there is another very strong power of life from the lady, which makes him have the urge to bow his head and dare not look directly at her .

"Spatial labyrinth trap?" However, this kind of power is not the suppression of the life level after all. It just made Leo feel a little uncomfortable, and he recovered quickly, and his attention returned to what the lady just said, and some Surprised, he repeated a word the lady said.

Although the words spoken by the lady had a strong accent, he could still hear that the word was pronounced in the common language of the Earth Federation, and its meaning happened to be the space labyrinth trap.

"It's just..." The lady wanted to explain, but she couldn't find a suitable word to explain, because there is no concept of space in the world of Velen, and naturally there is no related language and vocabulary, so she can only say vaguely: "This is a very ancient language, and it is very difficult to understand the meaning. This word is specially used to refer to this kind of trap." She said, she performed an ancient courtesy to Leo, and said: "I It's Saran Meyer, nice to meet you, Mr. Leo Dodd."

"Saran Meyer?" Leo was stunned after hearing the other party's self-introduction, and said, "Choose the king Saran?"

The lady said: "If there is no second witch in the world who has served as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Marris, I should be the king-choice Saran you are talking about."

"Nice to meet you, ma'am." After confirming the identity of the other party, Leo saluted very respectfully.

The king-chosen Saran can be said to be the first witch to disclose her identity, and also the first witch to be recorded in the history of the world. She is also a legendary figure who ended the post-kingdom period of the Maris Kingdom and laid the foundation for the current Marris Kingdom.

When the Maris Kingdom was in the post-royal period, the kingdom was extremely chaotic, with countless lords and princes fighting each other. This place is exactly the same as the end of the world mentioned by the Church of Kings on Heshan Hill.

At this time, the Kingdom of Savile invaded the Kingdom of Marris again, and the Kingdom of Marris was almost destroyed. In this situation, a rural woman named Saran stood out. She obtained the revelation of the King of the Hill as an excuse, She quickly organized the villagers in the village where she lived to form the Maris Resistance Army to attack the invading Savile army.

In the battle after battle, Saran's reputation grew. Countless wandering knights of the Marris Kingdom gathered around her, as did some refugees, deserters, and defeated nobles. Saran's army gradually increased. Become stronger, and has become the strongest force in the rebel army in the Kingdom of Marris.

Although the Church of the Hill King did not admit that Saran claimed to have received the revelation of the hill king, he did not deny it either. Therefore, most people also subconsciously believed that Saran was the one who had truly received the revelation from the gods. The nobles also gathered around Saran.

Finally, after Saran wiped out the largest force in the invading army of the Savile Kingdom in the Valley of Wheels, all the remaining invading troops of the Savile Kingdom escaped from the Marris Kingdom.

At this time, she elected Karan Tawis, a descendant of the Maris royal family, to become the new Maris king, and appointed herself as the country's prime minister, entrusting her generals who participated in the Great Patriotic War with her.

For Saran's approach, some veteran nobles in the Maris Kingdom were naturally dissatisfied. Although they played little role in the Great Patriotic War, they still restrained some Savile's invading army. They didn't discuss it with them at all, and the subsequent enfeoffment nobles didn't have their share, and what made them even more annoyed was that many of the territories that Saran enfeoffed were all separated from their territories.

Faced with Saran's obvious attack, the veteran nobles were naturally unwilling to let it go, so they also elected a descendant of the Maris royal family as the Maris king. In this way, the Ares kingdom entered its four-year period The period of the two kings, and also lasted four years of civil war.

After four years of civil war, the old nobles were no match for the new nobles under the command of Saran, and they were completely defeated, and all their territories were taken away. Except for a few young nobles who were sent to the Church of the Hill King to become lifelong servants of God, the rest All of them were killed, so besides the title of choosing the king, Saran also has the title of Bloody One.

After annihilating all the resistance forces in the kingdom, Saran began to reform the kingdom, and began to establish a three-level parliamentary system, the House of Lords, and the House of Representatives, and established the constitutional monarchy of several major countries such as the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Maris. basis of making.

In terms of civil affairs, there are even more huge reforms, such as the promotion of various forging technologies, the establishment of a compulsory education system, the establishment of the Royal Academy, the opening of the national relief system, and a series of various systems that have built the current political structure of the Vinylon world.

Compared with the extremely smooth reform of the government and civil affairs, Saran encountered a lot of resistance to the reform of the military administration, and many of these resistances came from her most loyal supporters.

She abolished the knight system of the Maris Kingdom, abolished the lord's private army system, established the concept of the national army, and formed the national army.

This series of practices undoubtedly hurt the interests of the military nobles who gained power through military merit at that time, so they encountered the greatest resistance. Some military nobles even secretly united to assassinate Saran and seize control of the king.

But these approaches failed in the end, and all those who tried to resist Saran were executed, including some generals who had followed her on the battlefield from the beginning.

After a series of reforms, the Kingdom of Maris has completely changed, and it is full of vitality. The national strength is growing day by day. In just ten years, it has surpassed the strongest period of the Kingdom of Maris in the past. It can be said that the army is strong. .

At this time, the Savile Kingdom was weakened due to the failure of the invasion and the tribal civil war. Saran had already decided to form an army to attack the Savile Kingdom in order to avenge the invasion.

However, what Saran did not expect was that a descendant of a nobleman who was let go at the beginning had gained a high status in the Church of the Hill King, and through his status, he found some contacts between Saran and the archbishop of the Church of the Hill King Letters, which recorded some transactions between the Archbishop of the Church of the Hill King and Saran, and in these letters, the Archbishop of the Church of the Hill King directly called Saran a witch.

In order to get revenge, the descendant of the noble directly made these letters public. For a while, the entire Maris Kingdom was boiling, and some forces dissatisfied with Saran also began to spread the influence of this matter in a targeted manner, and finally forced the hill king. The church had to stand up and admit the deal between the archbishop and Saran, and claimed that the archbishop did so to prevent the kingdom of Maris from perishing, and this statement also admitted in disguise that Saran was not a divine enlightenment, but a witch .

The public can accept that Saran is a low-status country woman, or that Saran is a slut as described in the rumors, but as loyal believers of the hill king, they will never accept that a witch becomes the ruler of a subjugated country.

For a while, the entire Maris Kingdom began to oppose Saran. Some nobles led some troops to attack the royal capital under the pretext that Saran used evil power to control the king. However, the 100,000 garrison of the royal capital did not make any resistance at all, so they let these people go. Enter the palace and capture Saran.

As a result, Saran seemed to have known that there would be such a result, and he disappeared before the enemy arrived. After that, although the Maris Kingdom Congress offered a huge reward, no one found Saran. There are many rumors that Saran In order to prevent herself from being caught and humiliated, she found a secret place to commit suicide so that no one could find her.

Perhaps in order to find some psychological comfort, the Maris Kingdom finally accepted the rumor of Saran's suicide. At this time, no one in the kingdom cared about Saran's life and death any more. The various powers under the government began a political storm that lasted for twenty years.

Fortunately, the system formulated by Saran is very perfect. Even if the upper-level politicians fight to the death, the various internal affairs departments of the Maris Kingdom can still operate freely, and the army has not participated in the internal struggle. The country as a whole is relatively stable.

Although Saran is a witch, she has a very high status in the articles of various historians in the world of Velen, and even the vast majority of historians are willing to use the reformer of Velen to honor Saran. Among the people who had the greatest influence on the world of Velen, except for the knight king Faran who was ranked in front of Saran because of his status, everyone else was ranked behind Saran.

It was two hundred years ago that Saran was chosen as the king. Although so many years have passed, he still has an extraordinary influence in Velen, and when such a legendary figure appeared in front of Leo, Leo naturally expressed his gratitude. Show due respect.

As for whether the woman in front of him is lying, whether she is more than two hundred years old, and whether she is the king-chosen Saran, these questions do not bother Leo at all.

Although Lady Saran's life level does not exceed Leo's, it is not low. It should be equivalent to a sixth-level psyker. It also makes sense now.

However, Leo didn't care about Saran's lifespan. He cared more about the knowledge in Saran's mind, whether it was the political reforms that Saran carried out for the Marris Kingdom with obvious characteristics of the old earth, or what Saran just said. The lingua franca word that he said showed that Saran had obtained a knowledge storage device of the Earth Federation, and learned a lot of knowledge systems from these devices that were different from the world of Velen.

"Please come in!" Saran, who has the obvious identity of the master, led Leo into the castle. Sylvia didn't let go of Leo's hand, and walked side by side with him, looking like he was greeting others. Declare the sovereignty over Leo.

Seran, who was bathed in fire, looked at Saran's back with some doubts, and seemed a little surprised that Saran appeared to meet Leo in person, but she didn't think too much about it, and quickly followed.